Literature Content - From Atlas

World Literature I Content:

• Classroom Orientation
• Syllabus
• Meeting each other
• Basic Vocab for Literature
• Blogging
• Creation Stories
• Myths and Legends
• Creation Stories
• Myths and Legends
• Shakespeare bio
• Reading Shakespeare
• Character Anaylsis
• Reading analysis

· Sophocles, King Oedipus
· Sophocles, Antigone
· Creation Stories, Sibi, Mulan, Haiku, Tanka,
· Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
· Things Fall Apart
· Things Fall Apart Webquest
· Developing the Essay
· Research and citing sources
· Literary Circles
· King Oedipus, Watling translation
· Creation Myths - Hebrew, Hindu, Chinese, Hawaiian (Kumulipo) - archetypes, symbols, and signs
· Gilgamesh - excerpts including Humbaba, Enkidu's Dream, The Flood, and The Return - the hero archetype
· Writing an essay - development of thesis, introductory paragraph, and support
· Grammar - subject-verb agreement, commonly misused words, verb tenses
World Literature II Content:

• Develop understanding of Shakespeare's style and literary techniques
• Collaborative work for deeper understanding
• Adapting historical work to modern times

· history of 100 year war and inquistion
· historical fiction

• Read teenage love story
• Study life in small Japanese fishing Island
• develop skills for identifying specific details
• Discuss themes of book and issues of community
• Attack on Pearl Harbor
• Life in the Philipines during WWII
• Folk Lore and storytelling
• Creation Stories
• Myths and Legends
• Anchient Poetry
• Venn Diagrams
• Greek Gods Webquest to introduce culture and impact of beliefs on life
• Study of Greek Drama (Read The Theban Trilogy)
• Literary concepts: Fate, Irony, Antagonist, Protaganist, Tragic Flaw, conflict
• Moral values in action
• Roman history/literature (Read Julius Caesar by Shakespeare)
• Removing leaders through assassination
• Missionary work (charity or imperialism)
• Might makes right??